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Crossword

A first prize of £20 and two further prizes of £10 (or, for UK solvers, a copy of Chambers English Dictionary — ring the word 'Dictionary') for the first three correct solutions......

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12 YEAR OLD COMPETITION SCOTCH WHISKY citiVAS REGA L 12 YEAR OLD SCOTCH WHISKY Hooker Prize II Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1708 you were asked to provide an imaginary extract......

Solution To 1038: Penturban The Unclued Lights Arc Names Of

Potteries towns and their fictional names in Arnold Bennett's Potteries novels. 28 is the fifth town. Winners: Helen Meixner, London W6' (£20); Francis Bernard, Sea- ford,......

No. 1711: Lear Improved

If Nahum Tate rewrote one Lear, why shouldn't you rewrite the other? Lear's limericks have struck many as weak be- cause of the way the last line echoes the first. So new......